I think a goodly part of the reason for the skepticism among those who deny evolutionary Science, apart from the undeniable confirmation bias on the part of the rigidly religiously minded—try saying that five times really fast—whose entire belief systems are dependent on a literal interpretation of ecumenical texts, is the basic ignorance of how…
Month: June 2016
Patti Lupone’s Geek Cred
This is pretty much PENNY DREADFUL week here and at our sister site, vampires.com. Lots and lots of coverage for the show, although this particular post is mostly tangential in its relation to it. Patti Lupone made her debut during season two as the Cut Wife, and came back for season three as Dr. Seward.…
I See a Rare Moon Risin’…
Considering that it was Curt Siodmak who largely invented the whole connection of the full moon to werewolves in his screenplay for 1941’s THE WOLFMAN (technically it was THE WOLF MAN, but I prefer to grammatically correct the title when posting it), it’s impressive just how prevalent the image has become, how much an intrinsic…
PENNY DREADFUL’s Dreadful Werewolves
We finally got to see just how formidable is the “Lupus Dei,” Ethan Lawrence (Talbot) Chandler, in this past weekend’s PENNY DREADFUL season three-cum-series finale. The first half of the two-hour program was as excellent and epic as anything we’ve seen in the show’s three seasons. He went through a whole pack of vampires like…
PENNY DREADFUL Creator’s Cop-Out
When news first broke that PENNY DREADFUL had been cancelled, I naturally assumed that Showtime was to blame, as in every case where a popular show gets cancelled it is always a network decision. (This is the price you pay, folks, for not telling us ahead of time that season three would be the last.)…
Who’d win in a fight?
The werewolf has been depicted in a variety of ways in pop culture. Historically, a werewolf was a human who turned into a wolf—a regular wolf, that is, no different from any other in terms of its appearance. We can credit Hollywood with giving us bipedal werewolves. In the days before CGI it was easier…
Canada Makes Bestiality Legal, Kinda, Sorta
English can be a weird language. Look at the word “beast,” for example. Add an L and a Y to it and you get the adjective “beastly.” But a synonym for this latter term is “bestial.” Both mean “beast-like,” yet where’d the A go in the second word? It’s the same with “bestiary.” No A.…
Hey, spit that corpse out!
[NOTE: This article was written before the tragic killing of a toddler by an alligator in Florida this past week.] In this week’s addition to be filed under the “snarling beasts with big teeth that can eat your ass” category, a 911 call out of the Sunshine State of Florida alerted officials to an unusual…
Review: THE RED DRAGON INN
I am referring not to a movie or even a book, here, but to a board game. I had never heard of the game before, I confess, but recently while visiting with some friends I became introduced to it and had the opportunity to play a session. THE RED DRAGON INN, a production of Slugfest…
Sasquatch mowed down by Semi in Alabama?
This one caught my eye due to the location in which the reported accident took place, the town of Decatur, Alabama. Decatur is a mid-sized city located in the northern part of the state, some twenty miles or so south of Huntsville, not too far from the Tennessee state line. The reason I know so…